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Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:20 pm
by Blink Bonny
Ay up!
That's a very good idea, old chap! More piccies?
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:37 pm
by Sniffer
Cheers BB.
Note; 2856 is centre frame.
Always a bit worried about posting pics of RTR stuff with all the amazing mods some of you boys get up to.
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:33 pm
by Blink Bonny
OW, OW, OW, OW!!!!!!!
Not a nice way to find a small cut in the end of your thumb - with flux.
Still, it proves that the ol' lungs and vocal chords are active.....
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:46 pm
by Mickey
When i was a youngster back in the early 1960s i had all metal constructed steam loco/car that a youngster could sit in and was propelled by peddle power!!. The interesting thing about this loco/car was it was painted in a black livery with the front end, chimney, smokebox, steam dome & side tanks that was modelled on a ex-L.N.E.R. Thompson L1 with a B.R. running number on the smokebox door.
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:11 pm
by Blink Bonny
Interesting, Micky.
Pity you don't still have it! We'd be queuing up for a "go!"
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:26 pm
by Mickey
Blink Bonny wrote:Interesting, Micky.
Pity you don't still have it! We'd be queuing up for a "go!"
Yeah it is a pity BB i remember thinking at the time 1962-63 this thing looks like one of those steam engines (a Thompson L1) not that i knew it as such cos i was only about 5 or 6 years old at the time!!.
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:53 pm
by Mickey
Sorry BB and other's i just remembered i couldn't get 'into' this toy steam engine to drive it you actually sat on the roof of the cab but it really did look like a L1 and it even had a coal bunker as well the whole toy made in metal and painted black they don't make kids toys like that anymore.
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains.
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:38 pm
by Sniffer
Whilst the cat's away.
Mum and the offspring away for 8 days on Minorca, and I have peace.....and space to get the stock out.
Left to right: Std J72 body with a weathered (and working) chassis, 2 x Ellison rectangular tank wagons, an old Dapol asphalt wagon, Dapol creosote tank, a smashing Hornby refrigerated NE box van (containing nitro-glycerine !), gunpowder van. And a 20T NE brake van.
All picked up for next to nowt via various means on eBay, or the rummage bins at model railway shows.
(RTR is soulless isn't it.
)
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:55 pm
by Blink Bonny
Ay up, Sniffer!
Far from it. Thanks to the manufacturers "filling in the gaps" so to speak, my collection has more RTR than handbuilt these days.
The quality of some of the offerings is astounding. But others......
You know who you are!
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:59 pm
by Sniffer
Nice to hear from you BB.
"Running sessions" have been scarce recently, and I seriously need something a little more permanent.
(Even if it's going to be a limited space creation.)
Definitely not a shunting plank though.
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:58 pm
by Blink Bonny
Ay up!
Shunting Plank Inspiration?
http://moleendsandd.webs.com/
12 x 2, total portability!
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! - Playing trains!
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:28 pm
by Sniffer
Posted this a while back but it's still my aim :-
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10201
Know I'm a local, but how ignored is Harrogate in terms of modelling potential ?
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! Bit of advice needed
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:40 am
by Blink Bonny
Ay up!
I have a LOT of .5mm holes to drill in some coach sides. These are brass overlays (247 developments) on moulded clear plastic sides (Southern Pride).
My problem is this - I keep snapping drill bits at an excessive rate. I am using a pin vice with only a couple of mm of bit protuding from the jaws with very little pressure but still - snap! And it's getting pricey! My Wallet is growling. Again.
So anybody any advice?
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! Bit of advice needed
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:52 am
by earlswood nob
Good morning all
I have no engineering training, so treat my reply with care.
You are using the technique shown to me by the instrument workshop at my old firm, where there were several workers building live steam models.
I find that sometimes small drill bits jam just before they break through. If this happens I use a very fine broach to slightly clear the hole and then resume drilling.
Earlswood nob
Re: Back to Basics with Blink Bonny! Bit of advice needed
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:49 am
by 45609
Read this.....
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com ... ostcount=4
The chances are that the drills you are using are low quality (allegedly HSS) Chinese made and are really no good for this type of work. Not really much good for anything. Good quality drills of the appropriate geometry are worth their price and I buy mine from Drill Services in Horley.
http://www.drill-service.co.uk/
If you speak to them they will be able to give you the best advice but I suspect you need a quality drill with the correct geometry that so it will not grab and jam.
Slow spiral drill for brass
I would also consider cutting at higher rotational speed by using a mini drill press or an Archimedes drill chuck
